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Chapter 24 - 'Great timing' Chapter 24

I get ready and put on some nice formal clothes, and I have to say I look good. Not as good as I used to be in my last life, but still looking good. Then I act like I am some model in front of the mirror for a few seconds.

After whatever that was, Leo leaves to meet May at the bank, and May is wearing a suit, looking professional, and I greet May with a smile and speak, "May, I can't believe this is happening, you know. Thank you. You did not have to do this... at all," and May just smiles and playfully speaks, "Oh, it's nothing. You just need to sign a few papers, ok? and also just don't forget about me after becoming a big game developer," and I smile at her back and nod.

And after chatting for a few seconds, May walked inside the bank with me to open a bank account in my name, and the work was much faster than I thought... May gives me the bank card and passbook and says, "Take care of the passbook, ok? is important, and also take care, ok? Leo, if you ever need something, just call me, okay? and take care of you, little sister," and after taking the passbook and with a warm smile on my face, I speak, "Thank you for everything, really..." and I bow my head to her...

And May just laughs and pats my head, ruffling my hair, and then after a little bit of a chat, I walk away, and as soon as I am out of May's sight, I stretch a little and think, 'Well, that was fast, and also, May, she really was like family... Huh, I have to be careful around these women in this world; they are very beautiful and also great traps for a young lad like me. Wait... if May looks this good, then how does the Black Widow...? And before I could think anymore about things like that, I shake my head and put on the same cheap sunglasses I brought way back, and I casually walk back to the apartment.

 And after I enter the apartment, Abby speaks: "Where did you go, huh? Dressed up like you went to school or something?" and I casually say, "I went to meet a lady and do some work," and Abby almost falls down from the couch, and Abby speaks fast, "Wait, what! Did you say that, you disgusting bastard?!" And without giving any answers to Abby's questions, I enter my room and lock the door, letting Abby live in her misunderstandings about where I was and what work I did...

And I sit down on my metal sofa and speak, "Hey Ava, here is the new bank passbook link. Link this to the games we made and stop letting people use our games for free. Now it's time to make some real money," and Ava takes a photo of the passbook, and then, after using something like Google Lens, Ava links the bank account to the gaming site, which Ava herself had made, and then Ava speaks, "Done. Sir, Subway Surfers is now not for free; the cost is set at $1, and Candy Crush is also no longer free; the cost is set at $1, just as you ordered before. And also, I have selected the land and housing you asked for. Here are the results."

And I look at the photos on the screen and smile for testing my aliens and also training. I need a better house and also more land. Not only that, I will need land away from NYC because, well, all the stuff happens there. I don't want my house blown up every other week, so at the edge of NYC, a big plot of land seems nice, just what I want, and I say, "Ok, Ava, once we get the funds, buy the land and start construction. Make sure to have the training facilities too," and Ava says, "Ok, Sir." 

And then I lean back on the metal sofa, and I think, 'Ok, now with the training facilities, I can truly get a hang of all of my aliens.' Thencomes the study of the Omnitrix with Gray Matter. I guessed it will at least take me 5 months to 1 year to understand how to change the time limit on the watch or anything else, but that's good because I have time, and also by the time someone else is going to run out of time soon, Frank Castle, the Punisher, if me being in the Punisher's life does not change things much, which it should not because I have always been careful with my training and sparring with Frank. I never let him get close to me.

Because the truth was I was just using Frank to learn how to fight and train my body... but that's not the only reason. The many reasons I did not want to get close to Frank were because, well, I don't want to change the story. It was a simple reason, but it made my heart beat in a twisted way... Anyway, if the story stays the same, then Frank will find out about a hacker dude whose family was killed. Not by gangs—no, it was a hit placed on Frank, but his family ends up dying in the crossfire. Then, well, Frank does what he is good at: he hunts every second guy who killed his family...

And it turns out Frank's old friend Billy Russo also knew about this but did nothing, and also where Frank used to work before in the Cerberus Squad, which did a whole lot of bad things, and because the boss of the Cerberus Squad did not want to get fucked, he pretty much tried to kill Frank... and well, big story short, Frank kills everyone, and then season 1 ends, and Frank was lost once again trying to live... until season 2 comes around. A girl—I don't remember her name—but Frank finds a girl who needs help, and Frank sees his daughter in this girl, so Frank kills everyone who comes after this girl, and well, once again, Frank was out, but this time he was the Punisher...

So yeah, Frank just kills a lot of people. I don't want to be stuck with that, but I help him at least one time... not because I feel bad for that guy, no, but because I respect him. Someone who lost everything but still kept fighting—yeah, I help a man like that... 

And now it was evening. I turned into Gray Matter and did the norm every day: analyze, process, copy, replicate, and assimilate the last spar I had with Frank. After doing that, I started to study the Omnitrix as always. After a while, I sat there and thought, 'Well, while I study the Omnitrix, what more can I do?' Everything is going to get faster after moving into my new house... I should start studying other things like the Super Soldier serum and what else? Hmm, what about magic? Uh, well, most of the magic is pretty crap in the MCU other than stuff like what Wanda does and the portal, which is useful for sure...

It's funny how there is all sorts of magic in the MCU but the one I would only want is well the portal one even though the Omnitirx has a alien for pretty much everything form my Knowledge there is no alien in ben 10 that can teleport... wait what even is magic? At least from what I have learned from the books and stuff, MCU magic is pretty bad because most of it comes from someone else; it's like borrowing power from some other entity, which is pretty much like linking yourself to some sort of old god... As I said before, this is such a weird world!

But it's not totally stupid; everything should have a reason behind it, and I will find out that reason after all. Magic or not, I am pretty sure there is nothing even coming close to the Omnitrix even in this weird world, other than maybe the Infinity Gauntlet, but again, there is one alien who could even beat up someone with an Infinity Gauntlet... 

But I am doing too much thinking. Well, I am Gray Matter right now, so never too much thinking, eh? Well, Omnitrix...Omnitrix...Omnitrix. I went back to studying the Omnitrix, and while studying the Omnitrix, I realized a few things, or it's more like I saw what was in front of me all this time...

This watch I have is weird; it's not like the Omnitrix in the Ben 10 show. No, this is a little different. It looks like the Alien Force watch, but it functions more like the first Ben 10 prototype Omnitrix, but it's weird again because I can freely change aliens just by speaking their names, a function that was only in the Alien Force Omnitrix... Not only that, but I can also, with a tap of my hand, go back to human... But at the same time, I only have 12 aliens... Weird again. Not only that, but one of the aliens I have is Way Big... But at least I still have the 10-minute cooldown, but again, this doesn't make sense... at all! Uh, wait, what if the Omnitrix I have is not fully recalibrated?

That makes sense. If my Omnitrix was not fully recalibrated, then everything makes sense, so I have, like, a half-calibrated Omnitrix? So this should be worse than the prototype, right? But why is this working so well then? Is it because of me? Well, other than going into Gray Matter, I barely use this watch anyway...

I have to do more tests and do more experimenting... and just as I was going to brainstorm more with a red light covering me, I change back and time out... and I lie back on my bed and think, 'Great timing...'

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